Journey Quotes
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Chinese Proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is but half way.
de Maintenon, Francoise
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Franklin, John Hope
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
Hazlitt, William
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
Huxley, Aldous
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Le Guin, Ursula
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
Poe, James
Speed is good only when wisdom leads the way. The end of this journey, whether to the high horizons of hope or the depths of destruction, will be determined by the collective wisdom of the people who live on this shrinking planet.
Raban, Jonathan
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey’s fits and starts, rehearses life’s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
Rich, Adrienne
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Rossetti, Christina
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Sand, George
One approaches the journey’s end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
Steinbeck, John
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Walton, Izaak
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Warner, Charles Dudley
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.